Donald J. Kochan joined the Chapman faculty in 2004 as an Assistant Professor of Law. Immediately before coming to Chapman, Professor Kochan was an Olin Research Fellow and Instructor in Law at the University of Virginia School of Law for the 2003-2004 academic year. During 2002-2003, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at George Mason University School of Law where he taught courses in Property and Environmental Law. Professor Kochan received his J.D. from Cornell Law School (1998), where he was a John M. Olin Scholar in Law and Economics and managing editor of the Cornell International Law Journal. He also served as editor and executive editor of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy symposium issues in 1997 and 1998. He received his B.A. from Western Michigan University (1995), with majors in political science and philosophy.

After graduating from law school, Professor Kochan was a law clerk to The Honorable Richard F. Suhrheinrich of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Following his clerkship, Professor Kochan was an associate with the firm of Crowell & Moring LLP in Washington, D.C., where he specialized in Natural Resources & Environmental Law.

Professor Kochan has been an adjunct scholar for The Mackinac Center for Public Policy since 1995 and serves as a member of the board of governors of The Virginia Institute for Public Policy. He has also served as a co-editor for the chapters on administrative law in the treatise The American Law of Mining.

Courses Taught: Property, Natural Resources Law & Policy and Law & Economics

E-Mail: kochan@chapman.edu
(714) 628-2618

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